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definition
The comet-shaped region around Earth or another planet in which charged particles are trapped or deflected. Shaped by the solar wind and the planet's magnetic field.
Examples of magnetosphere in a Sentence
In 1959, Dr. Van Allen discovered that the Earth has a magnetosphere.
The IMAGE web site discusses NASA's mission dedicated to imaging the earth's magnetosphere.
Plasma flows in the dayside outer magnetosphere; the plasma rotates with the planet every 10 hours.
The mission will apply techniques developed for Cluster to resolve spatial and temporal structure in the inner magnetosphere for the first time.
Changes in magnetic field geometry while the spacecraft is traversing the transition region between the outer and middle magnetosphere are also considered.
Possible applications to observations in the terrestrial magnetosphere are discussed.
The amount of braking can be related to the number of charges leaving the pulsar magnetosphere.
Galileo's first flyby of Ganymede discovered that Ganymede has its own magnetosphere field embedded inside Jupiter's huge one.
The main difficulty arises from the rapidly varying magnetic fields which originate in a region of near-Earth space called the magnetosphere.
Apart from the Solar Wind, the Jovian magnetosphere is the largest structure in our Solar System.